Snow Golem

[Dresdom 0]

Snow golems still can be easily built. Using a shovel you can get infinite snow blocks, and they don't melt. A cheap, non-gravity, solid block to exploit. 

 

I like the nice white colour the block has and I can build a whole castle out of one encaged snowman, but I think this is a exploit that should be taken into account.

[Terex 108]

I would be sad to see the snow block removed.

[DanDerth 4]

Snow golems still can be easily built. Using a shovel you can get infinite snow blocks, and they don't melt. A cheap, non-gravity, solid block to exploit. 

 

I like the nice white colour the block has and I can build a whole castle out of one encaged snowman, but I think this is a exploit that should be taken into account.

What do you suggest? Personally, I have no problem removing this exploit. Perhaps the snow golem would have to move to a new block in order to create a new layer of snow. Then farming his snow would be more arduous than simply farming it in the wild. (Because then we'd have to wait for him to walk around. Be free snow golem; be free!!)

[Bunsan 323]

The golems already have to move to produce snow layers. Another solution would be to make them have physics a la cobble.

[Dresdom 0]

Snow golems don't need to move to create snow layers. Lock it up, apply shovel to the block where it is standing, infinite snowballs.

 

I'd suggest different things:

1- Make snow block melt on non-freezing temperatures

2- Make snow block "soft" like thatch so it can't be used for bridging, building or preventing cave-ins

3- Make snow block gravity-affected like cobble. 

 

Any of these or maybe all of them could render snow block unexploitable.